SpaceX has successfully launched the Starship for its 10th test flight after it was delayed a couple of times due to weather conditions and other issues. This time, the company was able to achieve its objectives without the vehicle and its booster exploding mid-test. One of those objectives was deploying Starship’s payload for the first time ever. If you’ll recall, Starship exploded during its ascent stage in the company’s seventh and eighth test flights. The vehicle made it to...

SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy vehicle lifts off Aug. 26 on its tenth test flight. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — SpaceX completed a largely successful test flight of its Starship vehicle Aug. 26, putting the vehicle’s development program back on track after a series of failures earlier this year. To continue reading this article: Register now and get3 free articles every month. You’ll also receive our weekly SpaceNews This Week newsletter every Friday. Opt-out at any time. Sign in to an exi...

Leadership Summit hosted by consulting firm Berkeley Research Group BRG Consider a product as complex as a car, with intertwining parts and specialized machinery that all need to fit together just so. Depending on the vehicle, the process of designing the model, sourcing the materials, manufacturing the hardware, assembling the pieces, programming the technology, and testing the car can take years and millions of dollars before it’s ready to ship. And for the last several decades, many automak...

A camera on the second stage of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket shows debris falling away and a damaged or missing nozzle shortly after stage separation April 29. Credit: Firefly Aerospace/NASASpaceFlight.com WASHINGTON — Firefly Aerospace said its most recent Alpha launch four months ago was lost because of structural failure linked to higher-than-normal heating during the vehicle’s ascent. To continue reading this article: Register now and get3 free articles every month. You’ll al...

Lady jumps from moving car after unknowingly entering kidnapper’s vehicle in Kubwa, Abuja A Nigerian lady has narrated how she unknowingly entered a suspected kidnapper’s car at Kubwa in Abuja and was forced to jump out while the vehicle was in motion after the driver sped off from the park when someone identified him as a kidnapper. This is contained in a post made available on a popular social media platform, X, formally Twitter. The post shared by a user, @ABUJAPLUG, detailed the experien...